Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Two Hundred and Fifty Five

Axel lived on in my dreams but waking up to the painful reminder always left me in tears. There was this hole Axel had left behind, one that I feared even time couldn’t heal.

first

I didn’t know exactly why I was paying the sorceress a visit, but I knew I needed to right my wrongs. This place was exactly how it had been when I and Nick arrived here for the very time. I knew I shouldn’t be here and yet… yet here I was. I pushed aside the tendrils, which came together to form a curtain.

The sorceress sat as still as a statue on the moss–covered altar.

“Welcome back, Queen.” She said, turning to me. I stared into those ancient–looking eyes that seemed to know everything.

“You know why I am here,” I said to her.

“Yes, I do, but I am afraid I cannot help you.”

“Please…”

“You seek to fight fate, to fight nature itself. You cannot revive one that is already dead.”

“You can’t or… you won’t?”

“I can’t give life, Queen.”

“But there is something you can do, isn’t there? I will pay handsomely for your services.” I said to her, I had carried along the Cursed Weapon and why I knew fully well that it wasn’t mine to trade, I was willing to go through with it

anything from you; you’ve given enough,” she said, rising to her feet. “Who is

I

her head slowly. “He is more than that. You want to have

not about me or what I want.”

seek to please him, desperate for his

second in command would do that.”

you

you bring Axel back to life?”

bring him back, but he wouldn’t be

–

“I don’t care…”

regretted it, I won’t let

and

the same man you knew; he might end up becoming your worst… nightmare.” She said, but I knew Axel.

a price for that?”

no price, but an exchange. You cannot upset fate without giving something in return.”

what would I have to give?” I asked her.

long, and finally she spoke up. “Your

I repeated.

make,” she said, turning away like this